Abstract
Abstract. Millions of people are affected by natural and man-made disasters each year, among which women, children, elderly persons, people with disabilities or special needs, prisoners, certain members of ethnic minorities, people with language barriers, and the impoverished are the most vulnerable population groups in case of emergencies. Many national and international organizations are involved in Early Warning and Crisis Management training, particularly focused on the special target to safe children and improve their knowledge about disasters. The success of these efforts is based on providing the specific information about disaster preparedness and emergency in adapted for children educational materials, accompanied with simple illustrative explanations for easy and fast understanding of the disasters. The active participation of the children in the educational activities through appropriate presenting the information, short training seminars and entertaining games will increase their resilience and will contribute significantly to their preparedness and adequate response in emergency situations. This paper aims to present the conceptual framework of a project for establishing an Educational Disaster Centre (EDC) “Save the children life” at University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG), providing relevant justification of the necessity to organize such centre in Bulgaria and discussing good practices in Europe and worldwide for children' education and training in case of disastrous event. General concepts for educational materials and children training are shared. Appropriate equipment for the EDC is shortly described.
Highlights
Building resilience to disaster risk, climate change and conflict was recognized as a significant gap in the United Nations running initiative Millennium Development Goals
One of the main tasks of the specialists involved in Early Warning and Crisis Management (EW & CM) is to contribute to reducing the vulnerability of population and to extent the people’s capacity to resist hazards, to cope with the challenges associated with various disasters and relevant emergency situations, as well as to recover from them
Responsible EW & CM institutions perform regular information campaigns for awareness of the population about the main rules for reaction and protection in case of disasters, and many initiatives are undertaken till. They organized “Open Doors Days” and different events devoted to the International Disaster Risk Reduction Day to promote the DRR efforts in the country
Summary
Building resilience to disaster risk, climate change and conflict was recognized as a significant gap in the United Nations running initiative Millennium Development Goals. The brief data review and disaster statistics, given in this paper, the available geo-data and published information, as well as already developed materials will be used for design and preparation of special educational tools in the EDC “Save the Children Life”. The contemporary scientific achievements, in particular the studies of natural and man-made disasters, their spatial distribution and extent, accessible educational materials, digital visualization technologies, advanced communications tools will be utilize in the training process by experienced University educators and outstanding students. Major benefit of such educational disaster centre will be well informed, educated and responsible rising generation, capable to think spatially
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